Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 2 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 3 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 4 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 5 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 6 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 7 | Richard , of course , had been preparing for some such move . |
| 8 | Mary had been playing with some other children in the stable yard and had suddenly fainted . |